There's extremely bad news that could've come out of (the early report). This is a posterior shoulder strain, and we'll deal with it like you would a hamstring strain. Unfortunately, it's in the shoulder. For us, it is pretty good news. |
They built a hanger about a year ago, ... Certainly I'd want Smyrna to have the first shot at it. |
They want to make sure he can keep food down and not get any nausea. And we have to control the inflammation. But we are going to get after it [with the shoulder rehab] right away. |
They went in there and cleaned the medial meniscus out, and they didn't find anything in there. They closed him up, and they'll try to get him back this afternoon. |
To say no, I'm not sure about that. It's by no means anything we're going to do now. If it seems to be something where we learn of these problems two or three times a year, then you probably can go in and do something in the off-season. But now it's not a problem. |
We are going to go in and try to find out what is going on, ... That's why we are doing what we're doing - to find out why he does have this breakdown when the pitch count gets up a little. |
We do not anticipate this being a long-term situation. |
We don't know if it's a hydrating issue or what. He had cramping going on all over his body. For whatever reason, it manifested into a neck strain. He threw a bullpen today. I think Larry's planning on him pitching [Sunday] for us. |
We knew it was sore. He was able to take [batting practice.] Gearing it up to game speed, you could see him flinch a little in the first at-bat so we got him out of there. |
We want [pitching coach] Larry Rothschild to evaluate his arm strength and go from there. We will have more of a feel within the next week for how far we are before he throws on the mound. His long toss will be with a fair amount of intensity, but we are concentrating now on the volume of throws rather than the intensity. |
We'll see how he reacts and increase the activity as he tolerates. It's not something we'll be aggressive with. We've tried to relate this with a hamstring [strain], and obviously it hasn't completely healed 100 percent. If you did an MRI, there'd be some inflammation in there. We have to be real careful and strengthen it as it's healing. I'm not going to put any time frames on this at all. |
We'll see how he reacts, and we'll just increase the activity as he tolerates it. But it's not going to be anything we're going to be very aggressive with. |
We're being real cautious with this. We're not going to take any chances with that. We're concerned about our season, and we just said no and let's get it looked at. |
We're going in to try to find out what is going on, ... At this point in time, with the way he's pitching now, we're not anticipating anything significant. You don't throw a baseball as long as he has without some sort of rotator cuff fraying or some sort of labrum fraying. We're going to check everything out and make sure we don't miss anything. |
We're going in to try to find out what is going on. At this point in time, with the way he's pitching now, we're not anticipating anything significant. You don't throw a baseball as long as he has without some sort of rotator cuff fraying or some sort of labrum fraying. We're going to check everything out and make sure we don't miss anything. |